Beamdog Forum Migration
JuliusBorisov
Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,725
Greetings Friends,
Based on technical and financial considerations, Beamdog will be moving our forums to a self-hosted site in November. All forum posts and documents will transfer to the new site, but a few features will no longer be available, including:
Outage Notice!
Starting on November 8, 2021, the Beamdog forums will be unavailable for a few weeks while we migrate to a new hosting site.
Thank you for your continued support and passion for these games!
Sincerely,
—Beamdog Team
Based on technical and financial considerations, Beamdog will be moving our forums to a self-hosted site in November. All forum posts and documents will transfer to the new site, but a few features will no longer be available, including:
- User Badges
- User Post Counts
- Current Profile Avatars
- Activity Page
- Forum Leaderboard
- Forum Visual Theme
- 3rd Party Authentication (Facebook, Google, etc.)
Outage Notice!
Starting on November 8, 2021, the Beamdog forums will be unavailable for a few weeks while we migrate to a new hosting site.
- Save your faves: As a precaution, please make sure to save any posts, images, documents, or mods that are near and dear to your heart.
- Do you know your password?: Please make sure you know your login and password ahead of our outage.
- Remove 3rd Party Authentication: Once we move to the new site, you will not be able to login with 3rd party authentication (such as Facebook, Google, etc). If you typically used a 3rd party SSO to login to the forums, you may be required to perform a password reset following the outage. You can remove connected 3rd party authentication by editing your profile on the forum (click here for instructions).
Thank you for your continued support and passion for these games!
Sincerely,
—Beamdog Team
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I'm not crazy about points, but it's a nice way to interact and show appreciation for the effort behind posts, to acknowledge you have seen it and to give some feedback or support to the other person, which is why it was implemented in the first place. Without it, nobody will ever see if others liked, agreed or have even read the posts that someone made, unless they explicitly write a reply.
Does it mean that all attached files or links will be lost?
Now that I think about I will also miss 3rd party authentication, I always use google to log in.
As of today I have 173 bookmarked threads, so I am really hoping for the best….
And also the Participated and My Discussion threads, will they also transfer for each user?
In that case, I will prepare myself to say "Goodbye." to my Squire of Neverwinter badge. It would be just one more thing NWN-related to get taken from me. I guess I should be grateful that I got a "Heads up!" this time around. Thank you, sir. It is much appreciated. May you all have a blessed and safe Halloweekend.
Thank you for reading. Happy, healthy (both mentally and physically) gaming to all.
Unfortunately not. You will have to download them for offline view. If you only want to save your playthroughs for example, a possibility that saves storage space is to save the whole pages as images (for example the built-in feature in Microsoft Edge, capture whole site as image or something). Just make sure you open all spoiler tags in posts before you do that. If you then convert them to PDF and merge them into one (with free online tools), you get a neat looking document of your whole thread.
There are many possibilities, I just found this one to work best for me to preserve threads with information that I want to store, but avoid the number of folders if I save them as full website.
I'm not really keen on having to join yet another site I don't really use - I'm done with forums. Is it possible to delete my forum account but still keep my Beamdog account? I have a copy of the game purchased through Beamdog and don't want to lose access to it (its a backup in case Steam ever goes kaput).
Both your Beamdog account and your forum account should be independent and separate from each other. I believe you will retain your game purchases on Beamdog.com even if you delete your account here. The only way they would be lost is if you were to delete your account at https://www.beamdog.com. The website will even prompt you with a warning letting you know what will happen if you delete your account there. Hope this answers your question.
Thank you for reading. Happy, healthy (both mentally and physically) gaming to all.
This will be the same site with no need to create another username (although the exact URL is still TBD). It would be a shame to lose an author of the CEP mod, but if you've decided regarding the account firmly, please send me a PM. Also, the Beamdog.com account is separate from the forum account.
Do you mean keeping the URL because built-in bookmarks here are lost, or you mean that the URLs won't be redirected, so it's better to save the whole post via some archiving mechanism?
Alright, well back to a soul crushing masters program. See you all in a month and a half
For any NwN EE forumites just a friendly reminder that while waiting for the phoenix (the new version of the forums here) to arise from the ashes of the old, that you can always participate on the vault forums. If you haven't done so, you just need an account in order to post comments and make forum comments on the vault. Otherwise you can lurk, download stuff, etc. without having to register.
So au revoir to BD forums 'til we meet again.
TR
Hello. Any change of plan WRT the migration? I see a new forum, but it's still Vanilla, according to the footer. 😀
The Beamdog forums are back now.
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